thanks for info guys; I had to manually assign a driver for teh drive as it is not recognised automatically. I dont know wether the restriction on writing at 4x only was because I was not using; the right driver or the right media. I actually suspect the former as you can assign the write speed without media in on this software.

I doubt if I will bother with expensive media anyway

I was wondering if anyone had a driver update?, I was not very hopefull as they have gone on to winoncd6 which is a completley different beast to the very easy and usefull 5.